DENVER—Gov. Bill Ritter says he asked federal land managers to expand areas of the Roan Plateau that would be off-limits to direct natural gas drilling, calling the western Colorado landmark ...

PARACHUTE, Colo. — From the ground, the Roan Plateau is a craggy mass of tree-dotted rock that rises half a mile out of the high desert of western Colorado. From the air, however, it is 54,000 ...

That night I camped to the north of Factory Butte, in an area of undulating hills of dark shale adjacent to the first uplifted plates forming the eastern boundary of Capitol Reef. By moonlight the ...

There's something majestic about the red mesas, sage-green scrublands, winding desert rivers, and the expansive sky of the Colorado Plateau. Spanning a range of 130,000 square miles, this area ...

The federal lands of the Roan Plateau -- the contested area of Western Colorado prized for its rich cache of natural gas as well as for its stunning wilderness and wildlife -- will be up for ...

Wildfires in Colorado and the U.S. The map shows active wildfire locations and all 2018 fire perimeters*. The map defaults to Colorado; to see all wildfires, click “U.S.” in the view area.

Scattered around this area and the Colorado Plateau are tens of thousands of abandoned buildings. For two to three thousand years, Native Americans had been building sophisticated buildings.

On Saturday, Oct. 15, Bud Grant will be inducted into the Colorado Plateau Horseman’s Hall of Fame, along with Scott Amos, a Grand Junction-area horse trainer who specializes in cutting horses ...